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Services Provided
The Budget Office provides for financial and operational analysis for all City operations. These activities include analysis of budget submissions; preparation of the City's Proposed and Adopted Policy Budgets, the Capital Improvement Program (CIP) Budget, the Landscape and Lighting Assessment District (LLAD) Budget, and the Oakland Redevelopment Agency (ORA) Budget; maintaining the computerized Budget Development System (BDS); monitoring and forecasting of revenues and expenditures; and monitoring budget to actual financial data and non-financial performance measurements. In addition, the Division performs operational and management studies of the City functions and contracted services, provides cost analyses of labor union proposals, analyzes departmental fees and charges; prepares, maintains and distributes the Master Fee Schedule; develops, updates and reports on the City's Five Year Financial Plan; negotiates and updates financial agreements between the City and the Port; coordinates intergovernmental relations and lobbying efforts; identifies and tracks grant funding opportunities; monitors State and Federal legislation with financial implications for the City; and provides staff support to the Large Cities Caucus of the League of California Cities.

The City was awarded the Government Finance Officer's Association Distinguished Budget Presentation Award and received a unanimous rating of "Outstanding" as a policy document.